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It is a dark story with various elements involved to keep you riding with it wanting to find out what is going on. Best not to try to work it out and have no expectations but watch and dont give up. Complex film with a simple ending which may leave you bemused or confused. Either way Im sure no two ppl would finish watching that film and give the exact same answer as to:

a) What happened.
b) What it was all about.

P.S. is there going to be another film of Darko or is the website just confusing too? The website talks about other ppl and characters and refers to Donnie at a different age. Strange.

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No spoilers please now dearies, but am I on the right track in saying that the story chronicles a comeback collaboration between the Osmonds and the Black and White Minstrels

I must confess to being a bit confused about it all, but I am looking forward to receiving me £5.99 copy (especially after all the enthusiastic banner waving on these forums). Quite gets me juices flowing

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Just wanted to bump this to say I received it yesterday and started watching at about midnight. I had no idea what it was about at all - just thought it must be pretty decent to jump out of obscurity onto so many people's top ten films of the year list. I ended up watching it twice, back-to-back, putting off sleep till about 6am!

Superb, absolutely superb - the most refreshing film I've seen in ages (right up there with J&SBSB in that respect, hehe). The plot is nice and circular while remaining incredibly mysterious. It is well-acted for the most part and the dialogue moves adeptly though light comedy to extremely intense, psychological drama. As has been said here so many times, the soundtrack is awesome (the track selection/musical score and the voice of "Frank" through all the speakers stand out in particular). The other thing that really stands out is the use of incredible violence to "bookend" the storyline - rather audacious on the part of the author/director and pulled off nicely.

It'd get pretty much full marks from me were it not for Drew Barrymore's "acting" - omg, sooooo bad. She sounds like someone role playing in a middle school drama class that can't wait for "going home time".

Even after watching it twice I can't say I fully understand it. Fantastic.

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Yup, right after I requested a replacement. A day or two after that I noticed it for 6 quid, but it was too late to cancel then (in packing). Weird that, because when I phoned up for a replacement they told me I'd have a 2-3 week wait.